Richie Upton Beng Ieng Cmgr Email & Phone Number

Barnstaple, England, United Kingdom

Appointed to deliver and sustain challenging equipment availability targets above 85% across a diverse fleet of complicated and wide-ranging equipment including vehicles on multi-national operations, worldwide. Responsibilities undertaken:• Co-ordinated all deployed and non-deployed engineering activities to meet the organisation's aims and deliverables.• Constructed the quality management system and maintained as the custodian. • Chaired Equipment Care meetings and solutionised issues that arose. • Ensured all staff were sufficiently trained, resourced and motivated to achieve goals safely• Briefed higher management using strategic reports and statistics.• Provide equipment support advice and guidance to influence planning decisions and aid forward planning to address through life capability.Key Achievements:• Developed a quality assurance process as the lead internal auditor.• Set the pace for the Regiment by instigating operational and training fleet cycles to maximise the efficiency, allowing greater support to 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines.• Proactively streamlined and reorganised the maintenance facility and its processes into a more holistic efficient, productive, environment by using LEAN principles and maximising resources. • Successfully supported engineering operations in remote, austere locations where effective leadership, problem solving, communication and coordination were vital to achieve success.• Engaged directly with Defence Equipment & Support to unlock a diverse range of complex issues, from failings in plant spares procurement and availability for contingency to Design Authority issues for new variants in Norway.

Uk, Usa, Africa, Germany, Cyprus, Nepal, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan, Oman, Norway, Gibraltar

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Managing multi discipline trade groups who carry out the maintenance, inspection, repair and procurement of spares for all equipment associated to Explosive Ordnance Disposal (vehicles, plant, Remote Control Vehicles (RCV) and weapons). I am accountable for the availability of equipment on various levels of readiness from 10 min to 30 days.Routinely deliver detailed briefs and updates to senior management and regional command teams on fleet capabilities and availability. Responsible for continuous improvement across all processes including the audit and amendment of engineering practices in accordance with current legislation. Responsible for the training, development, competence & currency, technical output and Health & Safety of 115 engineers spread across the UK, Northern Ireland and on Worldwide Operations. Directly accountable to 6 CEO's for the availability of the Operational fleet of equipment on immediate call for Explosive Disposal operations in the UK and Northern Ireland.Responsibilities:- Continually reviewing engineering support to the customers multiple priorities as the Senior Group Engineering Operations Manager and strive to continually improve the delivery of engineering support for customer.- Responsible for the training and development of 50 electro-mechanical engineers. - Develop Engineering Management Systems to support the military's three operational bomb disposal organisations in accordance with Chief Military Engineers policy.- Responsible for planning for responses to operational scenarios to enable the customer to react to emergency situations.- Key stakeholder in future equipment programmes and new EOD technology. - Work with individual Project Teams to continually develop and improve new systems and equipment sustainability.- Champion continuous improvement within the organisation using LEAN methology.- Mentor project engineers to develop technical competence and professional development.

Colchester, United Kingdom

Manage a diverse team of engineers and varied tradesman who are responsible for the first line repair and in depth service and maintenance of both wheeled and specialist vehicles as well as specialist air portable equipment, providing intimate equipment support to 16 Air Assault Brigade. Set repair targets and manage priorities in line with customer and operational requirements. Team mentoring and development to ensure continued competency and customer support at all levels and career profile development. Provide advice and detailed briefs at board room level on operational commitment, briefing and updating senior management, on equipment availability and capability gaps.Responsible for continuous improvement across repair processes including the audit and amendment of engineering publications and management systems in accordance with current legislation and the implementation of an error management system. To ensure equipment care and processes are followed correctly and diligently utilising audits and continuous observation of practices while maintaining the very high readiness (VHR) profile towards AATF (Air Assault Task Force) in the contingency environment as part of the Air Assault Brigade.During this period I deployed, for 7 months, on Operations to an isolated austere location managing a team to deliver intimate, immediate equipment support; directly and positively effecting Operational efforts and outputs. Awarded a One-Star commendation.

Nepal

Chief Engineering Officer – Providing engineering management, leadership and assurance inspections to 3 workshops in Southern Asia , supporting 70+ complex civilian and military equipment, and providing equipment support to 20 welfare locations in Nepal and India.• Managed the remote and isolated diverse repair workshop in the organisation in austere conditions. • Wrote and developed company procedures in conjunction with company policy. • Analysed technical problems, within delegated authorities, against operational risk, to make effective decisions and deliver timely direction and advice. • Act as the organisations Chief Engineering Officer. • Conduct assurance inspections within the organisation prior to external inspections to ensure that the organisation is complying with current legislation. • Assisted in the preparation of the organisation for annual external audits and inspections. • Manage and advised career development of expert engineers and technicians within the organisation. • Control an annual budget in excess of £800k per FY. • Project lead Crisis response. Ensuring small teams where trained and equiped to react to natural disstser relief.• Managed the organisation’s Vehicle procurement programme managing and liasing with both internal and external multiple multi national and discipline organisations.•Project lead for the development of the Equipment support facilities within reapir locations.

Hereford, United Kingdom

Responsible for the effective and safe command and control of a large automotive workshop and its workforce, ensuring that levels of manning, tooling and technical publications were of correct levels to allow the servicing, inspection, repair and maintenance of over 1000 specialist vehicles ranging from off road motorcycles to armoured personnel carriers and HGV, ensuring that the unit has enough fit equipment to fulfill its tasks at all times. The development and implementation of a safe, efficient and effective engineering management system and act as the unit equipment care advisor for all automotive equipment's, ensuring all legislation and doctrine were adhered to through the chairing of regular unit equipment care meetings, audits and managerial checks of all engineering processes. Worked in conjunction with other agencies in the development of new automotive capabilities and their integrated logistic support solutions and conducted route cause analysis for all new and established equipment's. • Responsible for ensuring all military and technical training for deploying tradesmen was captured in preparation for any operational deployment.• Responsibility for all internal and external auditing within the workshop.• Subject matter expert on equipment care to the senior Chain of Command.. • Continuously developed the Equipment Care Directive - ECD (Engineering Plans and Processes) containing policy, administration and technical instructions to give clear direction for staff to follow. This contained detailed job descriptions.• Key stakeholder in equipment procurement and subsiquent sustainability programmes.• Responsible for the sucessful delivery of numerous vehicle sustainability projects both overseas and within the UK.During this period I completed a BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Manage a diverse team of engineers and trades responsible for the in depth service, maintenance and repair of both wheeled and tracked vehicles as well as specialist Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) equipment. Set repair targets and managed priorities in line with customer and operational requirements. Team mentoring and development to ensure continued competency and customer support at all levels.Responsible for detailed briefs and updates to senior management on fleet capabilities and availability. Responsible for continuous improvement across repair processes including the audit and amendment of engineering publications in accordance with current legislation. To ensure equipment care and processes are followed properly with audits and continuous observation of practices while maintaining high readiness profile towards LCTG (Lead Commando Task Group) and the ABTF (Airborne Task Force).

Guildford

Directly responsible for the development of a live technical improvement project on a specific military vehicle to improve overall engineering practices in its maintenance and repair, This included material selection, stress analysis, cost, material procurement, design and a implementation plan within a customer requirement. Directly responsible for the personal and career development of 30+ junior engineers.Liaised with senior project teams and civilian companies to acquire budget and prototype development data on a monthly basis. Also provided senior management with monthly progress reports and technical data, until the end of the project where a presentation to customers was provided along with a full report, including technical drawings through Auto CAD, implementation plans, and projected savings along with doctrine changes to secure safe equipment care.During this time, studied and passed a HND in automotive engineering.

Barnstaple

Directly responsible for controlling the production life cycles of repairs and maintenance of a diverse fleet of 200+vehicle platforms in a extremely busy workshop. Managing a diverse team of Engineers and various trade groups responsible for the in depth service, maintenance and repair of both wheeled and tracked vehicles as well as specialist winter and waterproofed equipment. Responsible engineering processes and procedures conducted within the workplace and carrying out regular audits. Responsible for personal development of a large workforce.Liaised with a wide range of civilian contractors on a daily basis to manage production cycles of contracted equipment and procure specialist spares to meet a number of high and low profile customer requirements.Technical advisor to senior management and customer senior officials as a SME, providing feedback on a weekly basis on factual and strategic production information, Along with technical advice on audit findings.

Master Of Science - Msc, Psychology

Psychology of Learning / Cyber Psychology / Research & Statistics / Distance Leadership / Positive Psychology / Human Development / Social.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng) (Hons), Mechanical Engineering

Level 6 Diploma, Leadership And Management

Hnd Automotive Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Advanced Electrical & Mechanical Engineering studies. Project management. Senior command, leadership and management.

Level 4 Diploma, Leadership And Management